Fund Groups

Each year Rice University allocates over 1 million dollars directly to support faculty initiatives. Below are some of the funds through which you can access these resources.

2019-20 Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Seminars | Topic

The Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Seminar is a year-long, six credit course intended to reach beyond the objectives of a typical graduate seminar by experimenting with existing models of research and creating new models of collaboration and pedagogy.

2020-21 Whiting Public Engagement Programs

The¬†Whiting Foundation¬†has invited the School of Humanities to nominate one faculty member for its¬†Public Engagement Fellowship¬†and one for its¬†Public Engagement Seed Grant. To be eligible for either program, nominees must have been full-time humanities faculty for at least two academic years as of September 2018; they must be pre-tenure, untenured, or have received tenure in the last five years.

Architecture ‚Äď Summer Research Funding

Arts Initiatives Fund

Goal:¬†Help faculty members develop new projects focused on creativity and the arts that lead to more lasting partnerships, innovative arts making or teaching environments, cross-disciplinary collaborations, or unusually creative works.

Awards for International Collaboration (AIC)

Brasil@Rice Travel Grants

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There are several¬†opportunities for funding for Rice faculty who wish to¬†travel and strengthen collaborations in Brazil, as well as opportunities to¬†invite research partners for research projects, proposals, conferences, and teaching prospects. Funding awards can be found through specific Rice initiatives as well as through Brazilian/U.S. government agencies. Please go to Brasil@Rice for more informaion

Brown Teaching Grants

CERCL Course Development Grant

Goal:¬† Each year CERCL (Center for Engaged Research & Collaborative Learning) accepts proposals for grants not to exceed $2000 to encourage new courses or the update of existing courses in line with the goals of the Center.¬†

Chao Center for Asian Studies Funding

The Chao Center for Asian Studies focuses on transnational, transhistoric, diasporic, and global movements of peoples and cultures of Asia. The Chao Center also plays an important role in reaching the Asian and Asian American populations in Houston and beyond, promoting community building and broader cultural understanding. Its funds support projects that contribute to the Center's mission.

Conference and Workshop Development Fund

Doerr Leader Development Innovation Awards

Goal: To support proposals for research, teaching, or curricular initiatives that advance our understanding of leader development process, pedagogy, and developmental outcomes in university or other organizational settings.

Engineering Solutions in Surgery Joint Seed Grant Program

Engineering Teaching and Research Excellence Award

The purpose of this award is to recognize engineering faculty who demonstrate excellence in both teaching and research and to encourage all faculty towards excellence in the classroom and the lab. Impact to undergraduate and graduate students for both teaching and research will be examined.

Faculty Initiatives Fund

Goal: Help faculty members develop adventurous research and scholarly projects that enhance the university and lead to larger endeavors, research breakthroughs, external funding opportunities, or unusually creative works.

Faculty Teaching-Release Fellowships

Every fall, up to 10 faculty members are selected by the Humanities Research Center to receive a one-semester teaching release during the following academic year. These fellowships are competitively awarded in order to facilitate the completion, development, or initiation of either individual or collaborative research projects.

Houston Solutions Lab

Goal:¬† ¬† The Houston Solutions Lab is a vehicle to draw Rice researchers and City of Houston departments together for mutually beneficial research. This program is how Rice is participating in a national network of City-University research partnerships called the MetroLab Network.

Inquiry-Based Learning Development and Enhancement Grant

Rice University‚Äôs¬†Inquiry-Based Learning Fund awards competitive grants of up to $30,000 to departments/units that oversee the curriculum of a major, area major, or interdisciplinary major/minor. Grants are intended to fund integration of experiential inquiry and research into the undergraduate curriculum of a major, area major, or interdisciplinary major/minor.
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Inquiry-Based Learning Planning Grants

Goal:¬†¬†¬†The Office of Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL)¬†Research Fund will award two types of competitive grants to departments/units that oversee the curriculum of a major, area major, or interdisciplinary major/minor: 1) Planning Grants of up to $10,000 and 2) Development and Enhancement Grants of up to $30,000.¬† Grants are intended to fund integration of experiential inquiry and research into the undergraduate curriculum of a major, area major, or interdisciplinary major/minor.
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InterDisciplinary Excellence Awards (IDEA)

Lectures, Symposia, and Speaker Series

The Humanities Research Center awards competitive grants of up to $30,000 to host lectures, symposia, or speaker series. These grants are intended to spark programming and curricular development in areas that do not fit within departmental structures, help develop innovative paradigms for conducting humanities research, or ask new questions within existing paradigms.

National Humanities Center Summer Residency Fellowships

As an institutional sponsor of the National Humanities Center (NHC), the Humanties Dean's Office has partnered with the Humanities Research Center (HRC) to sponsor two faculty members from the School of Humanities who would like participate in NHC's Summer Residency Program (June 3-28, 2019).

Office of the Dean of Humanities Funds

Public Humanities Initiative | Master Classes

The HRC‚Äôs Public Humanities Initiative invites faculty to submit proposals for Spring 2019 Master Classes, preferably in the areas of Medical Humanities or Cultural Heritage. Master Classes are intended for undergraduate and graduate students in the humanities and humanistic fields.

Rice Shared Equipment Authority (SEA) New Equipment Proposals - 2019

The Shared Equipment Authority (SEA) will have approximately $250,000 available for new instrument acquisition. We invite the science and engineering community to submit suggestions for equipment that they believe would be of great value as shared research infrastructure.

Social Sciences ‚Äď Dissertation Research Improvement Grant

Dissertation Research Improvement (DRIG) grants are awarded annually to support or partially support dissertation research projects proposed by graduate students in the School of Social Sciences who have completed their coursework and who have advanced to candidacy or will advance to candidacy by the time the awards are made.

Social Sciences ‚Äď Graduate Student Conference Travel Grants

Graduate Student Conference Travel Grants (GSCT) of up to $400 are available to graduate students in the Social Sciences at Rice who are presenting a paper or a poster as a first author at a conference or meeting.¬†

Social Sciences ‚Äď Pre-Dissertation Research Grants (PDR)

The Pre-Dissertation Research¬†Grants (PDR) provides support or partial support expenses related to preliminary dissertation research for graduate students in the School of Social Sciences (excluding Anthropology) at Rice.¬†

Social Sciences ‚Äď Seed Money Grants

Seed Money grants for up to $10,000 are available to tenure-track faculty (position at the rank of assistant¬† professor) for the development of larger projects leading to research grant proposals to outside funding agencies.

Spatial Humanities Initiative | Field Work

With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Humanities Research Center‚Äôs Spatial Humanities Initiative invites faculty to submit proposals for summer travel funding, of up $7500, related to the development of spatial humanities projects.

Spatial Humanities Initiative | Humanities 'Design' Studios

With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Humanities Research Center‚Äôs Spatial Humanities Initiative invites faculty to submit proposals for multi-tiered Humanities ‚ÄėDesign‚Äô Studios where participants can develop processes for producing imaginative solutions to geo-spatial problems that are complex in form, content, and scale.

The Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance

Undergraduate Research Assistance

The Humanities Research Center will make available to faculty members in the School of Humanities undergraduate research fellows with strong backgrounds in the humanities. This program requires 200 hours of research-based work with faculty on innovative humanities-based research projects.